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Bio: Maggie Bettany is a freelance writer who specialises in health and beauty matters, with a particular focus on spas and spa treatments.

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Stressed out? Massage your cares away at a day spa

Stressed out? Massage your cares away at a day spa

By • on September 18, 2009

If your jaw is almost permanently clenched, your neck taut and your insides tied in an array of knots that would do a boy scout proud, you may well be

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Reiki – the spa treatment that can help ease pain

Reiki – the spa treatment that can help ease pain

By • on August 31, 2009

The untimely death of pop icon Michael Jackson recently unleashed a wave of media coverage surrounding the problems of living with chronic pain.  How

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Perfect gifts for girls – spa breaks

Perfect gifts for girls – spa breaks

By • on August 10, 2009

Choosing Christmas and birthday gifts for ladies of any age can be a real challenge. There’s always the risk of getting it wrong and buying a present

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Boom in cheap spa breaks as public focus shifts to wellness

Boom in cheap spa breaks as public focus shifts to wellness

By • on July 28, 2009

Since time immemorial, the prevention of illness has been acknowledged as being considerably better than the cure – especially by overworked medical

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Calling time on hidden calories

Calling time on hidden calories

By • on July 2, 2009

If the bewildering barrage of conflicting advice published by alcohol experts on a daily basis has you drowning in a cocktail of guilt and uncertainty,

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Spa-rty girls: beauty treatments come home

Spa-rty girls: beauty treatments come home

By • on June 16, 2009

A new type of social event is enjoying increasing popularity on the other side of the Atlantic, as pamper or spa parties become all the rage. So what exactly

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Stress: all in a day’s work for most UK staff

Stress: all in a day’s work for most UK staff

By • on May 18, 2009

With a recent report providing a somewhat disconcerting insight into the likely health of the British workforce over the coming 20 years, private healthcare

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Introducing the new super-hero: spa-man …

Twenty-first century man is officially a “spa-man”, which is why sons and daughters nationwide acknowledge their appreciation of their own paternal superhero by sending their dad

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Dinner’s burning – but not a cooker in sight

It sounds like the stuff that dreams are made of… fat-burning foods that actually use up more calories when you consume them than the calorific value of the food itself. But don’t pinch yourself too

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Mind over matter?

Are you worried about losing your mind – be it through exhaustion, stress or simply the relentless passage of time? You’re not alone. Indeed these days, obsessing about one’s “little grey cells”

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